“Remember the solidarity here and everywhere…” Beginning with this quote from the legendary Palestinian scholar Edward Said, John Collins offers some reflections on a recent panel discussion where he and colleagues from Mexico, Palestine, and the UK discussed the looming threat of Israeli annexation and the changing conditions within which activists around the world express their solidarity with Palestine’s struggle for liberation.

In the widespread protests against police violence following the murder of George Floyd, Blake Lavia sees evidence of how COVID-19 has brought the problems of a “racist economic system” into sharper view. Can the current uprisings hold the key to addressing both the climate crisis and the need to build a more just economic system? The challenge, Lavia argues, is for white people to look themselves in the mirror, go beyond performative solidarity, and work actively to dismantle oppressive systems.

A statement released on June 11, 2020, by members of the local AAUP chapter at St. Lawrence University (Canton, NY) and other St. Lawrence faculty members in response to systemic racism and the nationwide and worldwide protests against following the police killing of George Floyd.

This open letter from Burma/Myanmar human rights activists was originally published on Facebook and is reprinted here with the permission of the authors. It expresses “solidarity with American people protesting against racism and police brutality.”

This post gathers international responses to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. While this is obviously a major news story in the United States, it is important to understand that the world is watching is well. The post will be updated regularly.